Forest Farm Updates
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The Good Life Center at Forest Farm in Harborside will be open for guided summer tours beginning in June. Regular hours each week will be from 1 pm to 4 pm in the afternoon on Thursday through Monday, we are closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The Center will remain open through Labor Day. As always, […]
Nearings featured in Vermont Folklife Center Talks
This past summer the Vermont Folklife Center featured a series of three talks on Helen and Scott Nearing. You can hear the talks in podcast format by going to the Vermont Folklife Center website: vermontfolklifecenter.org. Once at the homepage, look for the Multimedia heading on the right hand side of the page (in blue and […]
Nearing Events in Vermont - Summer, 2009
The Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury, Vermont is offering four intriguing Nearing programs this July and August. The following three talks will be held at the Folklife Center at 88 Main St., Middlebury, Vermont at 7 pm.
Thursday, July 23rd - Rebecca Gould’s talk is entitled “Sacred Natures: The Nearings, Homesteading, Localvores and the Way Ahead.”
Thursday, […]
Good Life Center - Summer 2009 Schedule
We are pleased to announce that the Good Life Center grounds and gardens will open for tours beginning Sunday, June 21st and remain open through Labor Day, September 7th. The days are Thursday through Monday (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) and the hours are afternoons from 1 to 4 pm. If you have requests for tours […]
Good Life Center Update
The Good Life Center is pleased to announce that renovation work to address the moisture problems in the buildings at Forest Farm will begin later this spring. The historic stone house was built in the 1970’s and over the years the surrounding ground has settled allowing water to infiltrate the walls and basement. We are […]
Welcome, Emma Rain!
The Good Life Center’s Resident Steward Juli Perry and Executive Director Bob St.Peter welcomed their second daughter, Emma Rain, on November 11, 2007. Emma was born peacefully at Forest Farm at just after 6:00 on a beautiful late fall morning. Emma is the third baby to call Forest Farm home and the first born at […]
Resident Steward’s Update (11/2007)
by Joel Walther
Just as life on the farm is beginning to slow down, it has sped up for Bob and Juli with the arrival of their new baby, Emma Rain. It has meant an adjustment for everyone, but a welcome one at that.
The garden is getting put to bed now. Most things have stopped growing, […]